Comrade Kritzman!

The Commission for the Utilization of Property has distributed the Crimean trophy assets.
5-10% of various items to Morved.

What is this for?

We are impoverished, and we are going to maintain and develop Morved, without having any guarantees that France will not sink our ships.

In my view, there is neither plan nor thought visible here. I fear that this is simply routine. Answer me.

Lenin

In the journal

Written in April 1921

First published in 1958

*Historical Archive* No. 2

Printed from the manuscript